WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls Let’s shed a big fat crocodile tear for the elites here and abroad. Their secretive real estate transactions are on their way to being more transparent both in the US and Britain. Their private law firms, corporate filings, and bank accounts have been exposed by whistleblowers and hackers. Their legacy admissions …
Marble Falls Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …
Marble Falls When we think of libraries, most of us have a pretty clear picture in our minds. To some it’s a quiet, contemplative space, where often all we can hear is the shuffle of feet from card catalogues, if those still exist, to rows of bookshelves. Maybe we remember having to spend …